| Main Entry: | dreamlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resembling a dream |
Synonyms: |
hypnagogic, surreal |
Antonyms: |
real |
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
Synonyms: |
absurd, aerial, bizarre, blue sky, capricious, castles in the air, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, notional, offbeat, on cloud nine, pie in the sky, pipe dream, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, suppositious, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unfanciful, unimaginative, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | ideal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceptual; impractical |
Synonyms: |
Utopian, abstract, chimerical, dreamlike, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, high-flown, hypothetical, imaginary, in the clouds, intellectual, ivory-tower, mental, mercurial, notional, out-of-reach, quixotic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental, unattainable, unearthly, unreal, visionary |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
Antonyms: |
actual, common, material, practical, pragmatic |
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
Synonyms: |
abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not existing in physical form |
Synonyms: |
aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, celestial, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, dreamlike, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, intangible, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritlike, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unearthly, unembodied, unfleshly, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike |
Antonyms: |
bodily, material, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | momentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, fleeting |
Synonyms: |
cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flashing, flitting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, gone in flash, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, in wink of an eye, instantaneous, like lightning, passing, quick, shifting, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile |
Antonyms: |
lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying |
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
Synonyms: |
absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, flimsy, gone, gossamery, groundless, hallucinatory, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, imponderable, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void, passed away, passed on, perished, shadowy, tenuous, ungrounded, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, without foundation |
Antonyms: |
actual, existent, existing, real, true |
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
Synonyms: |
aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, invented, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, notional, ostensible, phantasmagoric, pretended, reachy, romantic, seeming, sham*, storybook, suppositious, supposititious, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary |
Antonyms: |
authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | vague |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not definite or clear |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, amorphous, amphibological, bewildering, bleary, blurred, cloudy, dark, dim, doubtful, dreamlike, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, generalized, hazy, ill-defined, impalpable, imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicable, lax, loose, misunderstood, muddy, nebulous, obscure, perplexing, problematic, puzzling, questionable, shadowy, superficial, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, undetermined, unexplicit, unintelligible, unknown, unsettled, unspecified, unsure |
Antonyms: |
certain, clear, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | hallucinatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
Synonyms: |
apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasm, phantasmagoric, phantasmal |